🥊Debunking: Sunscreen Misinformation 👩🏻‍⚕️O’Connor et al just released paper detailing sunscreen misinformation and conspiracy theories on social media and she’s a doozy. 📝 Noted numerous misinformation “themes”: (RanellaMD spoilers in () 🤥 Sunscreen “alternatives”/“natural” options. (They will get you skin cancer, “naturally.”) 🤥The “real” people at risk for skin cancer (Do you have skin? Then tag, you’re it.) 🤥Promoting “tanning” as safe (yes, safest way to be sure you look older as quickly as possible.) 🤥Alternative (inaccurate) skin cancer causes (ain’t the sunscreen, the seed oils, or your phones, just that big ball o’ fire in the sky.) 🙋🏻‍♀️But Dr. Ranella, why? Why do so many of these people put so much effort into misleading and frightening you with their “emotionally charged narratives from non-scientific sources” despite the OVERWHELMING science? 🔍The overlap between folks scaring the bejesus out of you who JUST SO HAPPEN TO HAVE A FANTASTIC ALTERNATIVE TO SELL YOU is uncanny. 👩🏻‍⚕️So before you believe the next lie about sunscreen (and there will be another) 🛑 and ask yourself this. 💰Who gains? Who profits (all the #linktobuymybookinbio, #havewegotasaferatingsystemforyou?#haveyoutriedmynewsupplement?#haveyouseenmycookbook and so on.) But this time, keep your wits and realize you are being manipulated for profit. No shade, they do it again and again BECAUSE IT WORKS and because it gets them money and exposure. !!️So the next time someone tries to 😱 you into sunscreen fear, remind yourself the outcome: They get rich, you get skin cancer. #sunscreen #SPF #skincancer #squamouscellcarcinoma #melanoma #skincancerawareness #mythbusters #mythbusting #references #skinscience #ranellamd